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MEET SOME PEOPLE FROM 'MEET THE PEOPLE'

WHEN, along with tin horns, hobby horses and rock candy, Santa Claus brought to town and thrust in Broadway's stocking one brightly beribboned wardrobe trunk labeled "Meet the People." Broadway didn't exactly clap its hands in gleeful anticipation. It was remembering several other express deliveries from Hollywood which had failed measurably to enrich this dour season.

January 05, 1941

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